Does anybody make a drop D tuner

That'll work with vintage style Klusons?

Thanks

The Hipshot B-bender with drop-D option will work.

+1 for the Hipshot!

That's about it, as stated above....the Schaller & Keith (Scruggs)...both require a 3/8" hole.......:neutral:

me like'm the hipshot.

I actually made one once as I didn't have the cash to buy a Scruggs/Keith type banjo tuner as that was about the only thing available then (Late sixties). What I used was a single arm cast aluminum water faucet handle. it had a screw on the short end to tighten it on the faucet shaft. I put a bolt through it and a hole I'd drilled in the headstock (Mosrite Guitar) and rested the string in the slot of the screw on the short end of the handle. I'd then tune the low D note first with the handle away from the string and then turn it to a right angle with the string so that the string was resting in the slot. If it was sharp you'd just have to screw it in a little or out if it was sharp for the E note. I got the idea from a friend of mine who played 5 string banjo and had a pair of "D-tuners" on his banjo which worked the same way by pushing the string sideways with a pair of "levers". It was primitive I guess but it worked.........JH in Va.

I actually made one once as I didn't have the cash to buy a Scruggs/Keith type banjo tuner as that was about the only thing available then (Late sixties). What I used was a single arm cast aluminum water faucet handle. it had a screw on the short end to tighten it on the faucet shaft. I put a bolt through it and a hole I'd drilled in the headstock (Mosrite Guitar) and rested the string in the slot of the screw on the short end of the handle. I'd then tune the low D note first with the handle away from the string and then turn it to a right angle with the string so that the string was resting in the slot. If it was sharp you'd just have to screw it in a little or out if it was sharp for the E note. I got the idea from a friend of mine who played 5 string banjo and had a pair of "D-tuners" on his banjo which worked the same way by pushing the string sideways with a pair of "levers". It was primitive I guess but it worked.........JH in Va.

I ordered a hipshot. Sounds easier to intall:roll:

...What I used was a single arm cast aluminum water faucet handle. it had a screw on the short end to tighten it on the faucet shaft. I put a bolt through it and ....

I've been thinking about rigging up something to put on my tuner and your post gave me some ideas. :) Thanks!